Casebook of Sheriff Pete Benson

Pete Benson was a big-city police detective. His job was intense, dangerous, and 24/7.

He loved it.

But he also had a loving wife and two young children he hardly saw.

So he made a choice.

Now Sheriff Pete Benson patrols Rhyolite County, Montana. His beat is bigger than some states, but it's beautiful country with tall mountains and broad valleys-and more cows than people.

Rodgersburg, the county seat, has fewer than three thousand people. That's where Benson and his family live, where he gets t...